Downright has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The girl was not downright homely. | |
| 2. | That movie's downright dirty. | |
| 3. | The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. | |
| 4. | There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense. | |
| 5. | That's downright dangerous. | |
| 6. | The food industry in China is so downright criminal, that city slickers become part-time farmers. | |
| 7. | But that's... downright disgusting. Why isn't anybody doing something against that? | |
| 8. | In itself idleness is not the root of all evil. Quite the opposite, in fact, it’s a downright godly existence, as long as one isn’t bored. | |
| 9. | It sounds downright frightening. | |
| 10. | It seems downright impossible. |